Asmus,
I know your style of humor, but to keep it straight:
All known human languages, even Piraha, have pronouns for "I" and "you".
--Jörg Knappen
Gesendet: Montag, 20. August 2018 um 16:20 Uhr
Von: "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Thoughts on working with the Emoji Subcommittee (was Re: Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process)
Von: "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Thoughts on working with the Emoji Subcommittee (was Re: Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process)
What about languages that don't have or don't use personal pronouns. Their speakers might find their use odd or awkward.
The same for many other grammatical concepts: they work reasonably well if used by someone from a related language, or for linguists trained in general concepts, but languages differ so much in what they express explicitly that if any native speaker transcribes the features that are exposed (and not implied) in their native language it may not be what a reader used to a different language is expecting to see.
A./
